[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12 00/12] Packet capture framework update

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri,  1 Oct 2021 09:26:53 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:

> This patch set is a more complete version of the the enhanced
> packet capture support described last year.
> 
> The new capture library and utility are:
>   - faster avoids lots of extra I/O, does bursting, etc.
>   - gives more information (multiple ports, queues, etc)
>   - has a better user interface (same as Wireshark dumpcap)
>   - fixes structural problems with VLAN's and timestamps
> 
> There are no blocker items.
> The following are worth noting:
>   * bogus checkpatch warnings
> 	- the correct flag to open is O_CREAT
>         - intentionally keeping macro with goto since that
>           was in original code and is clearer
>         - the tempfile name can not be const since it is
>           overwritten by tmpfile() call
> 
>   * enabling BPF tests causes CI to see a pre-existing bug
>     https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=811
> 
>   * future filtering for stripped VLAN tags needs collabration
>     with libpcap project to fix pcap_compile_filter().
> 
> v12
>   - fixes for capture offloaded VLAN tags.
>     look at direction flag and handle QinQ offload.
> 
> v11
>   - address review comments for pdump (patch 6)
> 
> v10:
>   - fix to rte_bpf_dump to handle more instructions
>     make sure all bpf_test cases are decoded
> 
> v9:
>   - incorporate suggested change to BPF XOR
>   - make autotest for pcapng more complete by reading the
>     resulting file with libpcap
> 
> v8:
>   - enable BPF tests in autotest
>   - add more BPF test strings
>   - use rte_strscpy to satisfy checkpatch
>   - merge MAINTAINERS (put this in with existing pdump)
> 
> v7:
>   - add functional tests for pcapng lib
>   - bug fix for error returns in pcapng lib
>   - handle long osname on FreeBSD
>   - resolve almost all checkpatch issues
> 
> v5:
>   - minor build and checkpatch fixes for RHEL/FreeBSD
>   - disable lib/pdump on Windows. It was not useful before
>     and now pdump depends on bpf.
> 
> v4:
>   - minor checkpatch fixes.
>     Note: some of the checkpatch warnings are bogus and won't be fixed.
>   - fix build of dumpcap on FreeBSD
> 
> v3:
>   - introduce packet filters using classic BPF to eBPF converter
>     required small fix to DPDK BPF interpreter
>   - introduce function to decode eBPF instructions
>   - add option to dumpcap to show both classic BPF and eBPF result
>   - drop some un-useful stubs
>   - minor checkpatch warning cleanup
> 
> v2:
>    fix formatting of packet blocks
>    fix the new packet capture statistics
>    fix crash when primary process exits
>    record start/end time
>    various whitespace/checkpatch warnings
> 
> 
> 
> Stephen Hemminger (12):
>   lib: pdump is not supported on Windows
>   librte_pcapng: add new library for writing pcapng files
>   bpf: allow self-xor operation
>   bpf: add function to convert classic BPF to DPDK BPF
>   bpf: add function to dump eBPF instructions
>   pdump: support pcapng and filtering
>   app/dumpcap: add new packet capture application
>   test: add test for bpf_convert
>   test: add a test for pcapng library
>   test: enable bpf autotest
>   doc: changes for new pcapng and dumpcap
>   MAINTAINERS: add entry for new packet capture features
> 
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |  11 +-
>  app/dumpcap/main.c                            | 844 ++++++++++++++++++
>  app/dumpcap/meson.build                       |  16 +
>  app/meson.build                               |   1 +
>  app/test/meson.build                          |   6 +
>  app/test/test_bpf.c                           | 200 +++++
>  app/test/test_pcapng.c                        | 272 ++++++
>  doc/api/doxy-api-index.md                     |   1 +
>  doc/api/doxy-api.conf.in                      |   1 +
>  .../howto/img/packet_capture_framework.svg    |  96 +-
>  doc/guides/howto/packet_capture_framework.rst |  67 +-
>  doc/guides/prog_guide/index.rst               |   1 +
>  doc/guides/prog_guide/pcapng_lib.rst          |  24 +
>  doc/guides/prog_guide/pdump_lib.rst           |  28 +-
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst        |  10 +
>  doc/guides/tools/dumpcap.rst                  |  86 ++
>  doc/guides/tools/index.rst                    |   1 +
>  lib/bpf/bpf_convert.c                         | 575 ++++++++++++
>  lib/bpf/bpf_dump.c                            | 139 +++
>  lib/bpf/bpf_validate.c                        |   9 +-
>  lib/bpf/meson.build                           |   6 +
>  lib/bpf/rte_bpf.h                             |  39 +
>  lib/bpf/version.map                           |   7 +
>  lib/meson.build                               |   6 +-
>  lib/pcapng/meson.build                        |   8 +
>  lib/pcapng/pcapng_proto.h                     | 129 +++
>  lib/pcapng/rte_pcapng.c                       | 613 +++++++++++++
>  lib/pcapng/rte_pcapng.h                       | 194 ++++
>  lib/pcapng/version.map                        |  12 +
>  lib/pdump/meson.build                         |   2 +-
>  lib/pdump/rte_pdump.c                         | 427 ++++++---
>  lib/pdump/rte_pdump.h                         | 113 ++-
>  lib/pdump/version.map                         |   8 +
>  33 files changed, 3733 insertions(+), 219 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 app/dumpcap/main.c
>  create mode 100644 app/dumpcap/meson.build
>  create mode 100644 app/test/test_pcapng.c
>  create mode 100644 doc/guides/prog_guide/pcapng_lib.rst
>  create mode 100644 doc/guides/tools/dumpcap.rst
>  create mode 100644 lib/bpf/bpf_convert.c
>  create mode 100644 lib/bpf/bpf_dump.c
>  create mode 100644 lib/pcapng/meson.build
>  create mode 100644 lib/pcapng/pcapng_proto.h
>  create mode 100644 lib/pcapng/rte_pcapng.c
>  create mode 100644 lib/pcapng/rte_pcapng.h
>  create mode 100644 lib/pcapng/version.map
> 

Anything outstanding on this patchset? Would like this to make 20.11

The only failures in CI are false positives: ie bogus checkpatch, and ice RHEL7 build